mancus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latinized form of Arabic منقوش (manqūsh). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
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mancus (plural mancuses)
- (historical) A gold coin used in medieval Europe.
- (historical) An equivalent unit of monetary account.
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂n-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én- (“hand”), with semantic shift "hand" > "handy" > "handicapped, having a defect of the hand". Cognates include manus and Old Norse mund (“hand”).[1]
An alternate theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to lack”), comparing Lithuanian meñkas (“poor, small”) and Tocharian B mänk- (“to be deprived of, lack”).[2] These root of these words is sometimes reconstructed instead as *men- (“small, isolated”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈman.kus/, [ˈmäŋkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈman.kus/, [ˈmäŋkus]
Adjective
[edit]mancus (feminine manca, neuter mancum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mancus | manca | mancum | mancī | mancae | manca | |
| Genitive | mancī | mancae | mancī | mancōrum | mancārum | mancōrum | |
| Dative | mancō | mancō | mancīs | ||||
| Accusative | mancum | mancam | mancum | mancōs | mancās | manca | |
| Ablative | mancō | mancā | mancō | mancīs | |||
| Vocative | mance | manca | mancum | mancī | mancae | manca | |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mancus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 361
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “menkas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 311
Further reading
[edit]- “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mancus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mancus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mancus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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